CBS’s Weijia Jiang discovered herself on the CBS Night Information complaining in regards to the ballroom at present underneath building within the East Wing of The White Home. This was NOT how she’d deliberate her night to end up.
Watch the temporary in its entirety, as aired on the CBS Night Information on Monday, October twentieth, 2025:
WATCH: CBS’s Weijia Jiang whines in regards to the White Home ballroom and echoes Dem shutdown speaking factors pic.twitter.com/CCj1v4cMv1
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) October 21, 2025
MAURICE DuBOIS: The president initially stated his new ballroom could be close to The White Home, and wouldn’t change the present constructing. After which the demolition crews arrived. Right here’s Weijia Jiang.
WEIJIA JIANG: Development of the greater than 90,000 square-foot ballroom is taken into account probably the most important renovation undertaking right here in over a century. Immediately, crews began demolishing a part of the East Wing of The White Home. The $250 million undertaking is being privately funded by rich donors. This rendering exhibits the anticipated dimension of the ballroom in comparison with the remainder of The White Home. Some Democrats have criticized President Trump for specializing in a brand new ballroom whereas the federal government stays shut down.
Having exhausted all different narrative choices in relation to the White Home ballroom, the legacies play up the drained shutdown optics angle. That is what Jiang held till the final line of her tiny brief- to get in that final narrative hit edgewise in what’s in any other case a innocent story.
The ballroom is being financed with personal funding, and creates working-class jobs in Washington, D.C. that are, AGAIN, privately-funded. The story can be a dud however, for Jiang, it was a last fallback from the story she REALLY wished to report.
Jiang was gunning for the “Colombian fishermen” story at this time whereas protecting the joint press availability between Trump and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. However she received shut down and by no means had the possibility to ask the query.
EARLIER TODAY: CBS’s Weijia Jiang tries to ask POTUS in regards to the “fishermen” within the Caribbean Sea and will get shut down pic.twitter.com/snURu493va
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) October 21, 2025
As a substitute of a grand merchandise constructed round that quote and President Trump’s ongoing beef with Colombia’s ladyboy-adjacent president, viewers are caught with a shutdown speaking level grafted to the tip of a report on building. There’s your legacy media for you.
